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Morning In The Wetlands

I gave up wearing hiking boots. For one thing, my days of going on lengthy hikes over rough terrain are in my rear view mirror. Water-resistant linings and treatments for preventing water soaking through footwear can be somewhat helpful, but walking through Florida’s eternally wet grass is pretty much like wading a stream and your feet are just going to get wet. So I now have a pair of very comfortable shoes… Read More

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bandanna of the everglades, black-crowned night heron, blue dasher, bumble bee, common buttonbush, eastern gama grass, eastern pondhawk, great blue heron, great egret, itchepackesassa creek wetlands, marsh rabbit, pickerelweed, purple gallinule, queen, rambur's forktail, sachem, scarlet skimmer, seven sisters

More Coasting Along

Header Image: Least Sandpiper Our trip took place on March 10 and we were a bit late in the season to see as many migratory waterfowl as we might have seen three or four weeks earlier. Continuing my personal goal of “always late”, the first part of this post was late and this final chapter is much later than anticipated. Life interferes with plans. (All is good, just busy.) After a leisurely… Read More

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american avocet, american white pelican, fire on the mountain, great egret, great southern white, laughing gull, least sandpiper, little blue heron, long-billed dowitcher, longhorn beetle, merritt island nwr, sanderling, tricolored heron

Spring Mix

Header Image: Red-bellied Woodpecker Ingredients: Baby Lettuces (Green Leaf Lettuce, Green Oak Lettuce, Tango Lettuce, Lollo Rossa Lettuce, Red Oak Lettuce, Red Leaf Lettuce, Butter Lettuce), Baby Greens (Tatsoi, Mizuna, Red Chard, Green Chard, Frisee), Baby Spinach, Radicchio, Ingredients May Vary By Season. The above is from a label on a package from our grocer labeled: Spring Mix. Most of us purchase a similar package in July or December and don’t really… Read More

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Photography Tags: american kestrel, carolina desert-chicory, colt creek state park, cooper's hawk, great egret, marsh wren, mexican pricklypoppy, north american racer, northern waterthrush, red-bellied woodpecker, ruby-crowned kinglet, sedge wren, showy rattlebox, swamp sparrow, walter's viburnum

Even More Abundant Riches (The 2nd Part)

Header Image: Great Egret To say we had a nice afternoon would be a world-class understatement. It is difficult to believe we were there less than three hours. Not only did the birds cooperate, human visitors were extremely kind as well. The efforts to improve Orlando Wetlands Park have been quite successful. A new visitor and education center is under construction and will add even more to the total experience one may… Read More

Category: Birds, Florida, Photography Tags: anhinga, blue-winged teal, boat-tailed grackle, european starling, great blue heron, great egret, little blue heron, orlando wetlands park, purple gallinule, roseate spoonbill, snowy egret, tricolored heron, wood stork

Colors of the Spirit

My Dad was a builder of homes. Much like any kid, I valued those days I rode along in the pick-up truck to a job site. The sights, sounds and smells of a new house being built can be pretty heady stuff for an eight-year old. I didn’t know it at the time, of course, but by far the most significant part of the experience was time spent with my Father. On… Read More

Category: Birds, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american kestrel, cloudless sulphur, cypressvine, dotted smartweed, dusky pygmy rattlesnake, eastern tiger swallowtail, great egret, hairy chaffhead, narrow-leaf sunflower, narrowleaf silkgrass, phaon crescent, pinebarren goldenrod, red-shouldered hawk, tufted titmouse, virginia buttonwood

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